ENRaW Connecting Green Infrastructure - Volunteer Coordinator

Tender description

Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council (the “Council”) is seeking to appoint the services of a contractor, to build and work with different volunteer groups at a number of sites holding volunteer events/days to improve habitat management and engage people in nature. This will take place in Neath Port Talbot as part of the ‘Connecting Green Infrastructure’ regional project.The primary aim of the project, working as part of a new regional partnership, is to enable the co-design and co-delivery of Green Infrastructure (GI) in ways that meets local needs, supports communities and their health, builds ecosystem resilience, and enhances biodiversity.The project is setting out a new and collaborative approach to designing and delivering green infrastructure (GI) across Neath Port Talbot (NPT), Swansea and Carmarthenshire, for the benefit of local communities and their natural environment.Through volunteer development and engagement, and adaptation of internal work practices, the project will maintain and enhance existing GI, and make use of GI mapping to inform delivery and utilisation of new GI, delivering practical improvement projects across the region.The project will be managed by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, led by the Green Infrastructure Project Manager, with support being provided by project partners.The volunteer co-ordinator will be expected to take the lead in bringing a network of sites into active, conservation management, by building group, events and organising groups / individuals in taking an active, and on-going, role in improving and maintaining sites within their communities. This role will work alongside the habitat management co-ordinator role to provide a network of maintenance for the sites in Neath Port Talbot.Please contact Beth Parker, Green Infrastructure Project Manager, for full details and documentation at b.parker@npt.gov.ukDeadline for receipt of application is: 28/03/2022 at 14:00hrsDeadline for queries is: 21/03/2022Estimated Contract duration 11th April 2022 – 31st March 2023Additional Information:This project is funded by the Welsh Government Rural Communities - Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 delivering under part of Measure 16 (Article 35 of Regulation (EU) 1305/2013).Welsh Assembly Government through the Enabling Natural Resources and Wellbeing Grant. This project is funded by the Welsh Government Rural Communities - Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 delivering under part of Measure 16 (Article 35 of Regulation (EU) 1305/2013).Welsh Assembly Government through the Enabling Natural Resources and Wellbeing Grant.(WA Ref:119181)